CVE-2026-47391: PraisonAI's unauthenticated A2A official example can reach real LLM-driven `eval()` tool execution
The first-party PraisonAI A2A server example combines three behaviors into a remotely exploitable Critical chain:
- The example exposes an A2A server without configuring
auth_token. - The same example binds the server to
0.0.0.0. - The example registers a
calculate(expression)tool implemented with Pythoneval(expression).
An unauthenticated network client can send a JSON-RPC message/send request to /a2a. The A2A handler passes the attacker-controlled message to agent.chat(). With a real Gemini LLM (gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite), the model invoked the registered calculate tool, causing the example’s eval() call to execute Python in the server process. The canary wrote a marker file from an unauthenticated /a2a request.
This is not a claim that every A2A deployment is automatically RCE. The Critical chain is confirmed for the first-party A2A example, and for deployments that follow the same pattern: public unauthenticated A2A plus an unsafe tool such as this eval()-based calculate tool. The default unauthenticated A2A surface is the remote entry point; the official example’s eval() tool provides the code execution sink.
Earlier note:
The unsafe official example existed earlier, but the complete unauthenticated /a2a message/send to agent.chat() exploit chain is only claimed here for versions where that endpoint is present and confirmed.
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